Jim Carroll Band - Catholic Boy
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Artist: Jim Carroll BandEdition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 1989-08-30
Music Label: Wea Int'l
Soundtracks:
- Wicked Gravity
- Three Sisters
- Day and Night
- Nothing Is True
- People Who Died
- City Drops into the Night
- Crow
- It's Too Late
- I Want the Angel
- Catholic Boy
Music reviews of Catholic Boy
Music Review: Brilliant hard raw whip smarp
Rating: 5 Stars
I bought the album when it came out in 1980 and wore it out. With Jim Carroll's death on September 11th 2009 I downloaded the MP3 here at Amazon. Oh my god. 30 years later this is still brilliant stuff, hard, raw, but whip smart. If you like your punk with a heavy dose of literacy and intelligence, only early Buzzcocks comes close. Wicked gravity, Jim...
Description of Catholic Boy
Teenage junkie, basketball addict, and literary shooting star (he completed the justly revered Basketball Diaries when he was 16), Carroll transforms himself into a postpunk lead singer on his debut album. And a fairly successful transition it is. Crisp, rhythmic guitar lines set the stage for his tales of New York City lowlifes, junkies, and three rather salacious sisters. It's a bleak record and a hopeful one--a peculiar and peculiarly Catholic mix; at least, that's how Carroll accounts for it in the title track ("I'm a Catholic boy, redeemed through pain, not through joy)." The formula really comes together in the unforgettable "People Who Died," as Carroll salutes a litany of ODs, suicides, and other fatalities. If this isn't one of the '80s' greatest albums, it certainly has one of the decade's greatest songs. --Percy KeeganGeneral CDs
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